Last November I was searching on GenealogyBank.com under Minnie Sorrell and came across an article entitled
WANTS CUSTODY OF HER CHILD.[1] It was dated November 11, 1903. As I opened the article I was quite amazed as it stated that a hearing took place in Worcester Probate Court on a petition of a lawyer for Minnie M. Sorrell, of Bennington, Vt. to get custody of her six year-old daughter.
I entered this on my things to do list (research log) on
my Legacy Family tree software program and filed the article in my Worcester Courthouse
folder. On July 7 of this year I had an opportunity to go to the Worcester
Courthouse to look up the record and order record 32744. They called and said
it was in so I went on July 15th and made some copies of the record.[2]
It states that:
Marshall N. Thayer, attorney for Minnie M. Sorell that
Mary B. Sorell is of the age of six years, that she is the daughter of said
Minnie B. (sic) Sorell and John M. Sorell, that she is deprived of her liberty
and held in custody by Jacob Rand and Angeline Rand, both of Holden in said
County against the will of her mother the said Minnie M. Sorell and that she is
held in custody by them in the Town of Holden in our said County of Worcester.
That said possession of said child was taken by them at Gardner in the County
of Worcester about ____ember first A.D. 1903 _______ ______ there she has been
kept in custody in said Town of Holden..
Wherefore your petitioner prays that notice may be issued
commanding said Jacob Rad and Angeline Rand to appear and bring the said Mary
B. Sorell to be examined as this court shall direct.
Angeline Rand’s maiden surname is Larose and she married (2) her
husband Jacob in 1876.
Angeline Larose and Jacob Rand have to be related to my Grandmother Mary B. Sorell, or why would she be in their custody and my G-Grandmother Minnie M. (Howe) Sorell trying to get her daughter back from them. Angeline Larose' s parents are Gabriel and Lydia (Sears) Larose according to her death record dated Nov. 20 1909 from Holden, Massachusetts.[3]
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[1] Paper
Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester, MA), pg. 8, News/Bank and/or the American
Antiquarian Society
[2]
Worcester Probate Court Records, #32744
[3] Massachusetts, Deaths 1841-1915, Holden, MA., Familysearch.com
[3] Massachusetts, Deaths 1841-1915, Holden, MA., Familysearch.com